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Sebastian Herrera is a business and technology reporter at the Austin American-Statesman. He is a journalism graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, and his previous work includes the Houston Chronicle, NPR’s Austin affiliate KUT public radio and ESPN The Magazine.

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Telecommunications giant AT&T says it is building a testing facility in Austin to simulate real-world customer experiences with its evolving 5G network. The broadband provider is calling the testing facility a 5G lab. AT&T said the facility will open in North Austin in the spring and be used to test 5G network equipment and devices before...

Facebook is making changes to its ad department The social media giant said it will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail to verify the identities of people who buy election-related advertisements on its website. Facebook said the changes would happen before the midterm elections in November. Facebook is continuing to respond...

Debate over a requirement that businesses in Austin provide employees with up to eight days of paid sick leave annually might be just getting started, despite the City Council’s approval of the measure early Friday. But the setting for the next fight is likely to be the Texas Capitol, not City Hall, according to representatives of a...

The Austin area is one of 20 finalists for Amazon’s planned second headquarters2, a development expected to create 50,000 high-paying jobs and upend the winning city’s economy during coming years. The mere possibility of such a project has already reverberated across the Austin metro area, where residents and influences throughout...

By now, it’s common knowledge that Austin is a potential site for Amazon’s planned second headquarters. The Austin area is one of 20 finalists in the U.S. and Canada where the online retailer could build the project known as HQ2, a development expected to create 50,000 high-paying jobs and upend the winning city’s economy...

As Dell Technologies continues to examine the potential for major changes in its operational strategy, the Round Rock-based tech giant is also making smaller moves. Dell has agreed to sell one of its subsidiaries, cloud backup firm Mozy Inc., to Carbonite for $145.8 million in cash. Based in Boston, Carbonite also performs cloud backup and...

A new report highlights Facebook’s problem with young users The report by market research firm eMarketer says the use of Facebook by 12-17-year-olds in the U.S. declined by 9.9 percent last year. In total, Facebook lost about 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 in 2017. While Facebook is still overall the most popular social...

Gas prices in Texas have gone up recently as part of a surge in the oil market that has pushed costs higher across the country. The average price of unleaded fuel in Texas was $2.35 per gallon as of Thursday, a 26-cent increase over the same week last year, according to auto club AAA Texas. In Austin, the average price was $2.35 per gallon...

Amazon and Whole Foods Market have announced a new delivery system Beginning today, Whole Foods said Amazon’s Prime Now customers will be able to receive free, two-hour delivery of products directly from the grocer. Prime Now is Amazon’s fast delivery program, and now, the online retailer is officially expanding that...

As Amazon ponders its final decision on where to locate its $5 billion second headquarters project, will the retail giant factor in how far its workers’ salaries would go in whatever city it chooses? If so, a new study by online jobs marketplace Hired.com could help Austin’s chances for landing the project, which Amazon has...

After almost six months of being owned by Amazon, Austin-based Whole Foods Market has launched a new TV and digital advertising campaign that appears to be aimed at showing off the variety of products and services that the grocer offers. Each of the ads are short segments. One ad depicts a man shopping for cheese and being served...